May Day all around the world!!

Los Angeles: Things started early on April 30th with truckers going on a wildcat strike to protest the rising price of diesel fuel. 5 truckers later shutdown one of the main freeways by parking their trucks across it, shutting them down and leaving in a getaway car. http://la.indymedia.org/news/2004/04/109228.php

Vancouver, Canada: also couldn't wait until Mayday due to the simmering labour struggles. "Hydro" (which is electricity in Canadian) workers went on a wildcat in support of hospital workers who defied "back to work legislation" on the 29th of April. This is being followed up with a General Strike for Mayday http://victoria.indymedia.org/

Colombia: built up to a May 1st which was used to specifically protest the TLC free-trade agreement with the US, the ALCA Latin-American-Carribean free-trade agreement and the re-election bid of President Uribe. A huge April 26th march got things moving and events will continue until May 18th http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2004/04/12331.php

Koln: About 2000 people took advantage of the old, stone bridges to block the city succesfully
http://germany.indymedia.org/2004/05/81885.shtml



Berlin: A large Anti-fascist demo (approx 2000) passed off succesfully. Lots of pics at the link. Seems as though there were at least 2000 right-wingers (NDP) and the train ferrying them to Berlin was disrupted along its route. There are reports of about 100-150 people arrested. Across Germany an estimated 500,000 people marched in Union protests against Gerhard Schroeder's implementation of neo-liberal European policies "We don't want a Europe where one needs three jobs just to get by,"
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgermany.indymedia.org%2F&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools)



Louisville KY RTS PARTY http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/05/02/6140463

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Riot police have used water cannon to drive back anarchist protesters close to the Irish president's residence as European Union leaders met inside to celebrate the bloc's historic enlargement, witnesses say.
An estimated 2,000 anti-globalisation protesters waving black and red flags and banners saying "No borders, no nations, against a Europe of capital" marched on Phoenix Park, suburban seat of President Mary McAleese's Farmleigh House mansion.
A hard core tried to break through police lines despite warnings to go back. Scuffles erupted after stones and bottles were thrown at police before the riot squad was deployed.
The clashes occurred as the leaders were attending a celebration dinner after a ceremony in which the flags of the 25 EU member states were solemnly raised to mark the accession of 10 new, mainly ex-communist east European countries.
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/portal.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.co.uk%2FnewsPackageArticle.jhtml%3Ftype%3DtopNews%26storyID%3D502946%26section%3Dnews&what=T_IndexLinks&rid=27711

Atlanta Farm workers rally http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/05/03/6101463

Moscow,El Salvador,Ukraine (Kiev) ,Brazil,Havana,Costa Rica (San Jose),Honduras (Tegucigalpa) N.Korea (pyongyang) all were getting down!! http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=May%20Day

:-(

a reclaim the streets party in louisville and a farmers rally in atlanta prolly some more aswell

remembered!

:-)